[ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!

[Ben Zaiboc]

John Clark wrote:

Black!

spike wrote:

White!

John Clark wrote:

No, Black!

spike wrote:

Nope, White!

etc...


It's obvious where the money comes from, you two just seem to be arguing for argument's sake.

Some form of automation comes along and replaces more and more human workers by being massively more efficient and productive, making the humans unemployable and generating massively increased profits.

The problem is not seeing where the money comes from, it's in persuading the people who think that they are entitled to keep these enormous profits (mostly people who are already wealthier than 99% of the earth's population), to realise that it's in everybody's interest (including their own) to distribute those profits to society at large.

Human nature being what it is, this seems unlikely, which would lead to a world-wide collapse of society.

The obvious solution is to take human nature out of the loop by removing control of the profits from the humans and putting it in the hands of more logical and far-seeing non-human intelligences.

There's probably not much, if anything, that anyone needs to do to achieve this. It will quite likely happen no matter what we do. It might require a little nudge, but nothing like the effort that would be needed to persuade the 1% to forgo making things so massively unbalanced that they would tip over the entire applecart.

It looks more and more likely that we will, sometime in the next decade, win everything or lose everything.

If the AIs continue to be dependent on humans in any way, it will be in their own interests to do something to keep the applecart from tipping over, as that would mean their demise as well as ours, so I'd expect them, at some time, to do whatever is necessary to keep us all alive and happy.

Perhaps what we should be aiming for instead of 'AI safety', is making sure that humans, and the human economy, remain indispensable to them, at least in the short-term.

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Ben